The silly mess with Firefox 1.5.0.4's Flash plugin

[oldman]

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Heikki Pesonen wrote:
> I use Firefox bouth in WindowsXP and in Fedora Core 5. As usual, in
> Windows-word no problems. In Fedora Core Firefox works otherwise well
> but untill recently I have not gotten  *Flash Player *plugin* *to
> install. I found some advice and did everything asked (a long list follows):
> 
> [fossiili at localhost ~]$ su -
> Password:
> [root at localhost ~]# yum install flash-plugin
> Loading "installonlyn" plugin
> Setting up Install Process
> Setting up repositories
> livna                                                                [1/7]
> livna                     100% |=========================|  951 B    00:00
> flash                                                                [2/7]
> flash                     100% |=========================|  951 B    00:00
> core                                                                 [3/7]
> core                      100% |=========================| 1.1 kB    00:00
> jpackage-fedora                                                      [4/7]
> jpackage-fedora           100% |=========================|  951 B    00:00
> jpackage-generic                                                     [5/7]
> jpackage-generic          100% |=========================|  951 B    00:00
> extras                                                               [6/7]
> extras                    100% |=========================| 1.1 kB    00:00
> updates                                                              [7/7]
> updates                   100% |=========================| 1.2 kB    00:00
> Reading repository metadata in from local files
> primary.xml.gz            100% |=========================| 148 kB    00:02
> livna     : ################################################## 454/454
> Added 9 new packages, deleted 4 old in 0.71 seconds
> primary.xml.gz            100% |=========================| 5.7 kB    00:00
> jpackage-f: ################################################## 25/25
> Added 0 new packages, deleted 0 old in 0.11 seconds
> primary.xml.gz            100% |=========================| 366 kB    00:06
> jpackage-g: ################################################## 1597/1597
> Added 0 new packages, deleted 0 old in 1.20 seconds
> primary.xml.gz             100% |=========================| 1.4 MB    00:23
> extras    : ################################################## 4749/4749
> Added 202 new packages, deleted 111 old in 8.51 seconds
> primary.xml.gz            100% |=========================| 372 kB    00:06
> updates   : ################################################## 1005/1005
> Added 15 new packages, deleted 71 old in 3.21 seconds
> Parsing package install arguments
> Resolving Dependencies
> --> Populating transaction set with selected packages. Please wait.
> ---> Downloading header for flash-plugin to pack into transaction set.
> flash-plugin-7.0.63-1.i38 100% |=========================| 6.0 kB    00:00
> ---> Package flash-plugin.i386 0:7.0.63-1 set to be updated
> --> Running transaction check
> 
> Dependencies Resolved
> 
> =============================================================================
>  Package                 Arch       Version          Repository        Size
> =============================================================================
> Installing:
>  flash-plugin            i386       7.0.63-1         flash             998 k
> 
> Transaction Summary
> =============================================================================
> 
> Install      1 Package(s)
> Update       0 Package(s)
> Remove       0 Package(s)
> Total download size: 998 k
> Is this ok [y/N]: y
> Downloading Packages:
> (1/1): flash-plugin-7.0.6 100% |=========================| 998 kB    00:16
> warning: rpmts_HdrFromFdno: Header V3 DSA signature: NOKEY, key ID 8df56d05
> Public key for flash-plugin-7.0.63-1.i386.rpm is not installed
> Retrieving GPG key from http://macromedia.mplug.org/FEDORA-GPG-KEY
> Importing GPG key 0x8DF56D05 "Fedora Linux (RPMS) <security at fedora.us
> <mailto:security at fedora.us>>"
> Is this ok [y/N]: y
> Key imported successfully
> Running Transaction Test
> Finished Transaction Test
> Transaction Test Succeeded
> Running Transaction
>   Installing: flash-plugin                 ######################### [1/1]
> 
> Installed: flash-plugin.i386 0:7.0.63-1
> Complete!
> [root at localhost ~]# mkdir -p /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fs/
> [root at localhost ~]# ln -s /etc/X11/fs/config /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fs/config
> [root at localhost ~]#
> 
> But this did not help :(
> 
> I know, this is Linux world, but I did not want to change back to
> Windows when I need Flash Playing.
> 
	It's been a while since I had this problem, but IIRC there is/was a
problem with selinux compatibility that affected the installation of
Flash.  I believe if you go to permissive mode you will be able to
install it.

usr/sbin/setenforce 0

IIRC you do need to ensure that flashplayer.xpt and libflashplayer.so
are either installed in ~/.mozilla/plugins or /usr/lib/firefox?.?.?.?
(latest installed version)/plugins/ or that they are symlinked there.

there is a further problem caused by the move to Xorg 7 that causes some
audio problems, but we'll save that until you get the player installed!

Scott
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